“a broader and less pleasant reading is occasionally visible” seems a rather vague accusation... it seems like the equivalent of “if you squint a bit, this pancake looks just like the Virgin Mary.”

“Though it is more sympathetic to Driver’s character than other comedies of the period (such as the ending of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective), it doesn’t excuse the transphobia on display.”

Jay Rayner, the restaurant critic in the UK Guardian, has forsworn negative reviews on the basis that covid has hit the restaurant industry enough. If a restaurant’s bad, he simply doesn’t review it.

I love TLJ - the second-best SW film - and the reaction and behaviour of the ‘fans’ was both absurd and (where Tran was concerned) vile.

and the waist is actually your nipples.

And an even worse navigator...

Well, at least he’s got some cognitive function to lose.

I’m nearly 60. I was 14 when the first SW came out, so:
a) I’ll take my pleasures - bitter and melancholy as they may be - where I can find them.
b) Whoever this ‘Andrew’ is, I outrank him as someone who saw SW on its first release.

The Last Jedi is my second-favourite SW film, and I take a certain perverse pleasure that the complaints of all the dick-heads led to the horror that is tRoS.

I’d rather they took their time. Cramming the whole thing into a single movie really wouldn’t work.

But what if the driver’s drunk, and the passenger encourages them to speed?

Patti Smith’s Rock and Roll N*** came up on shuffle today, and I was puzzling over whether it was a) acceptable or not, b) what to do when singing along and c) whether a (white) cover today would be acceptable or not.

I dunno - maybe he was just talking about his melanoma?

Water hazard?

Is this finished footage? It looks awfully cheap and muddy in places.

I had someone once tell me, in all seriousness, that Springsteen was the Donald Trump of rock. I dunno if he didn’t know anything about Springsteen, Trump, or both.

I think it sort-of/maybe makes sense:

1. You never use the main buttons and the right joystick at the same time, and this doesn’t look any more inconvenient to switch than a ‘normal’ layout.

2. This arrangement means that you’re unlikely to hit either of the touch-pads accidentally, since you’re never reaching across…

This. And the AVC Loki reviews have indulged in this as well. I wouldn’t mind, but everyone’s so whiny about it - “Wah - they should have made the villain Wolverine’s dad who’d been infected by nanites that Kang’s dog stole from Reed Richards in an alternative universe whilst she was in heat and hiding from Lockjaw,…

“If you think safety is expensive, try having an accident.”
~ Stelios Haji-loannou

The Dark Knight Returns seems an odd omission - it was a pretty great adaptation, but I guess maybe too faithful for this list?